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I have compiled a page on www.tabstart.com full of great resources. This site allows you to categorize things as you will see when you check out this page. Have fun exploring! Cheers, Cary
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Apps for Flipped Classroom - For creating or sharing and finding, you will probably find it here.
Great ideas I can use to help students and parents become more involved.
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TECHeTEACHER Tips and Tools - Great blog posts!
Sites and resources
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Log in for Ideal Realignment - Here is where I go to log in to get to resources I need to review.
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edsitement - Lesson plans from hell! Awesome
Various sites for creating infographics
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Easel.ly - Create and share visual ideas online vhemes are visual themes. drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!
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PiktoChart - Allows non-designers/programmers to create interactive infographics to promote their cause/brand and educate in a fun and engaging manner.
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online graphing of words - Beautifully displays words you type in along with synonyms.
Apps to use in the classroom.
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Apps in Education - Sign up and get the latest
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TeacherCast - Listen, View, and Read about and Pin the latest in Educational Technology.
Tons of great links to explore.
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Cool Tools - Great resouce full of cool tools.
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Castle Dome's Subdomain on EDMODO - GREAT SITE
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Twitter - Awesome for networking with other teachers and getting message out to parents and students.
Let's support each other. Sign up, get a Twitter handle and follow CDMS staff
@lorisheffield - Principal of CDMS
@techeteacher - Cary Fields (8th grade LA and Computer teacher)
I don't know who else is on Twitter. Please let me know so I can follow them also.
PLEASE FOLLOW
@CASTLEDOMEMS this is our school's Twitter handle
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Share My Lesson - A great place for educators to share free K-12 learning materials, including activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Discover how you can upload or download resources on a number of subjects for students at any grade.
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Better Lesson - Browse thousands of documents, presentations, full lessons — even complete units and courses. Share your curriculum and connect with fellow educators around the world.
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Mentor Mob - Organize any video, article, or website into a Playlist. Searchable, sharable. EduAwesome!!
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EduTecher - Amazing reource!
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Symbaloo - Create a linkable pictorial representaion of all of your research, favorite links etc. and organize them into WEBMIXES. Search other webmixes and add them to your tabs.
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Dot Sub - An extensive collection of videos which can be either translated or transcribed into any other language. Users can both search for videos by key words or topics or make their own contributions, uploading and sharing their videos.
Tons of ideas for flipping classroom
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The Flipped Classroom Network - A social network dedicated to teachers interested in the flip. A professional learning community for teachers using vodcasting in the classroom. Many different resources here.
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Flipped Classroom Resource Links - Several links for flipping your classroom
Resources from the conference and beyond
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iSTE wiki - Wiki of iSTE with resources
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iSTE12 CONFERENCE NING - A social networking hub for The International Society for Technology in Education's 2012 conference.
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iSTE12 COMMUNITY NING - iSTE MEMBER NETWORK
Cool sites for creating things
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ThingLink - ThingLink's technology makes it possible to embed audio, video and rich media links directly in images and share them across the web. Encourage your fans, friends, and consumers to engage with images by watching videos, listening to songs and sound clips, and exploring social media.
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Glogster - Creative and fun ways to introduce any curriculum topic or lesson in a new and customized way for learners. Embed multimedia.
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Claco - Searching for a lesson plan? Why reinvent the wheel? Check out this great repository of lesson plans.
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Wall Wisher - Make noticeboards
Teach
Brainstorm
Keep Notes
Discuss
Collect Feebback
and the list goes on and on. Check it out
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Scoop it - From content to people and topics, the new dashboard lets you explore your interests your way. Connect with new interesting curators by following their topics and build your community of interests in the process.
Curation starts with inspiration: explore your Interest Graph directly from your dashboard.
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Tap Start - Organize your life on one page.
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wikispaces - Great FREE web creation site for teachers and students.
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InstaGrok - Terrific student research and inquiry tool
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Blockly - A web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application.
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Presentista - Create mulitmedia on one giant canvas without leaving the screen!
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Slideshare - A great site that allows teachers and students to create a free account and then generate an on-line version of their presentation slideshow. You can upload PowerPoint presentations and various other formats of slideshows that can be accessed on-line, downloaded for use later on or even embedded into classroom websites.
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Smile Box - A great site that allows teachers and students to create photo slideshows, scrapbooks, e-cards, and lots more. It's interface is simple and the designs that it offers are really great. The nice thing is that you can share your work with students and colleagues via email or embed it onto a classroom website or blog. The site even lets you create DVDs of your work. This is a great website that can make class projects new and exciting again.
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Digital Timeline - Create visual digital timelines!
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ZooBurst Augmented Reality 3-D Book Maker - Awesome agmented reality 3-D book maker! Print out the logo sheet and hold it up in front of your screen as you play your book. It literarally POPS OUT at you. This has my "it's totally eduawesome" seal of approval!
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Zearn - Zearn is fun, challenging, interactive lessons can be used to personalize instruction in class or at home. Zearn currently is developing K-8 .
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PowerMyLearning - FREE Platform for Driving Personalized Instruction and Self-Directed Learning: Activities in All K-12 Subjects, Aligned to the Common Core.
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Quizizz - Quizizz is a fun, multiplayer quiz where the whole class can practice together. The lively characters and graphics get students super-excited, and its compatible with tablets, chromebooks and mobile devices. Plus its completely free!
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Bitly -
Save, share & discover links by creating shorter url.
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Creating Infographics - Great source for creating infographics for the classroom.
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Themeefy - Curate and embed your own magazines!
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ProProfs - Create find share tons of educational resources!
LInks on Blooms, Costa's and more.
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Applying Bloom's Taxonomy - Gerat chart on Bloom's!
Sites used in iObservation meeting 8-1-12
Resources for teaching and learning about being a responsible digital citizen.
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Carnegie Cyber Academy - Great online interactive games to help promote digital citizenship
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Common Sense Media - Great resource for scope and sequence of digital citizenship.
Tons of resources for Common Core
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Mastery Connect - MasteryConnect is FREE to join and lets us share common assessments, track mastery of state and Common Core standards, and collaborate in an online learning community!
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Claco - Great site for resources
Cloud-Based Resources
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My Resource Cloud - Educational resources written by teachers, developed in partnership with Bongo LLP
- My Resource Cloud consists of a number of resource sections: My Language Cloud, MyMath(s) Cloud, My Science Cloud and My ICT Cloud.
- My Resource Cloud content and interactivity becomes individual to the users and their students. It is a Cloud Learning Environment (CLE), providing a conceptual bridge for learners between formal education and the personal web.
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Evernote - Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. It works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside images.
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Skitch - Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
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Showbie - Showbie is a cloud storage solution designed specifically for schools and classes using the iPad to enable students
to drop work from hundreds of apps right into an online assignment folder.
Through the website or app, students can
• Share files quickly and easily
• Express their creativity through various forms of media
• Hand in their homework using a computer or mobile device
Showbie also allows teachers to
• Assign schoolwork digitally
• Collect student work without printing any paper
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WebClipper - From interests to research, save anything you see online—including text, links and images—into your Evernote account with a single click.
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Evernote Trunk - So many resouces on this page.
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DropBox - Get one and it will save you tons of time.
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Google Drive - http://www.scribd.com/doc/92629651/Google-Drive-and-Docs-for-Teachers-2012
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Slide Rocket -
- Cloud-Based - Use SlideRocket at home or school.
- Collaborate on Group Projects - SlideRocket manages the content so you always have the latest version.
- Get presentation feedback from teachers, peers and advisors, right in SlideRocket.
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Jumpshare - Quick way to share different file formats.
Information for the first week back to school
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Castle Dome Middle School - Our school site
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PDMS Course Insite - District online site for registering for various trainings.
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Promethean Planet - You will need to get a free account but then you will have tons and tons of FREE resources for your Promethean board!
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PLATO Online Learning - Web-based Learning network
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Galileo Online - Web-based curriculum and testing site
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ASCD - ASCD is a membership organization that develops programs, products, and services essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead.